Kat's Notebook

My sister and I toured Japan on Oct 1-7. Weather was great. We only had 1 day of rain which was in Kyoto. It was a little bit overcast, cool in the mornings and evenings but warm during the day. The first hotel we stayed at was in Shinjuku. It was 10 minutes walk from [...]

On the first week of October, my sister and I went to Japan for a vacation. I wrote down the itinerary and we didn’t join any tour groups. There are lots of places to cover in Japan. Our trip included Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Nara. We ended up not going to Nara for lack of [...]

I took the All Nippon Airways for my roundtrip vacation to Japan. I heard good things about it and I didn’t mind paying a little bit extra for the fare if I’m going to be pampered in the flight. Well…that’s what I’d thought. I don’t if this applies to all of their planes but I’m [...]

I like to plan all my travels carefully. I research the things to see and do in a place before I go there. My Japan is not different. Actually it’s more painstakingly thought out because this is my dream vacation country. I don’t want to miss anything (which is hard to do given I’m only [...]

We decided to go to Japan on the first week of October because my sister had a week off from work. When I was planning this I discovered that it wasn’t a good time to go there because there was a chance of rain (because the typhoon season has just ended), there weren’t any cherry [...]

For the past 2-3 weeks, my sister and I were volleying ideas where to travel for her one-week holiday on October. The ideas whittled down to two choices: France or Japan. I would love to go to either one but my sister wanted a cheaper travel so we settled on Japan. I’d been planning on [...]

I’ve been living in the Bay Area for more than 5 years now and I can count with my fingers and toes the number of times I have toured San Francisco city. My tour is usually around Union Square, Market-Powell St, Embarcadero/Ferry Terminal, and Chinatown which is one of the reasons I got tired of [...]

Bohol is a wonderful adventure getaway because there are many things to do here. It combines both beach, sightseeing and mountain activities contained in a small area. When I was planning this trip, I was skeptical that I wouldn’t be able to do the things that this place is famous for. But thanks to my [...]

For my 4th of July long weekend, my friend invited me to join her and her friends to Las Vegas. I’ve already been to Las Vegas before but as her friends said that didn’t count because I was with my aunts and I basically just played tourist. This time around I was with good company [...]